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my sister-in-law, my best friend. i grew up around teachers and having an incredible respect for the difficult job that they have every day. and i still surrounded by teachers to this day. and i think that it is because i have such respect for teachers and told them in such regard i have a tremendous believe for what they can do and the power that they have, and i refuse to believe what many folks these days say which is if kids are coming from difficult situations and poverty there is nothing the schools can do. i roundly reject that notion. i think that when children are in the classrooms of truly effective teachers even despite the fact they may face a lot of obstacles those kids can achieve the highest levels and so we should aspire to nothing short as a nation making sure every single kid is in the classroom with a highly effective teacher every single day. it's no less than what we would want for our own children and nothing different than we should want for the nation's kids. >> michelle, if the united states s
my sister-in-law, my best friend. i grew up around teachers and having an incredible respect for the difficult job that they have every day. and i still surrounded by teachers to this day. and i think that it is because i have such respect for teachers and told them in such regard i have a tremendous believe for what they can do and the power that they have, and i refuse to believe what many folks these days say which is if kids are coming from difficult situations and poverty there is nothing...
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my grandfather was an educator, my grandmother, four of my aunts, a sister-in-law, a best friend, i grew up around teachers and having incredible respect for the difficult job they have every day and still surrounded by teachers to this day. because i have such respect to hold them in such regard regard, i have a tremendous relief for what they can do and the power they have. refuse to believe that if kids come from difficult situations and poverty there is nothing the schools can do. i roundly reject that notion. i believe when children are in the classrooms of to the effective teachers, despite the fact they face obstacles, they can achieve that the highest levels. we should aspire to nothing short to make sure every single kid is in the classroom every single day. no less than what we wanted for our own children for what we should want from our nation's kids. >> to spend the most per-capita per student, why is america's children 25 that of 30th in math, 17 in science and 14th in reading? >> when i sure those statistics they cringe. when i share the fact 25th in math and some of the co
my grandfather was an educator, my grandmother, four of my aunts, a sister-in-law, a best friend, i grew up around teachers and having incredible respect for the difficult job they have every day and still surrounded by teachers to this day. because i have such respect to hold them in such regard regard, i have a tremendous relief for what they can do and the power they have. refuse to believe that if kids come from difficult situations and poverty there is nothing the schools can do. i roundly...
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there were at least 40 notices on stanford's bulletin board at the law school, from law firms in california saying stanford law graduates, we have this, we would be happy to talk to you about job opportunities, give us a call. there were 40 different messages from different law firms in california on the bulletin board. so i called every one of those notices. not a single one would even give me an interview. i said why? they said we don't hire women. and that was the way it was. i got out of law school i just about 1952, but isn't that amazing? they wouldn't even talk. and i really did need to get a job. [laughter] i heard that the county attorney and san mateo county california, the county seat is in redwood city, had one lawyer on the staff so i thought that's encouraging. i will go see. i made an appointment. in california they lack the county attorney, and so they are always glad handers and he gave me an appointment to see them and they went to meet him. he was very nice, very agreeable. and he said he had indeed had a woman on staff at one time, and she did well and he would be happy
there were at least 40 notices on stanford's bulletin board at the law school, from law firms in california saying stanford law graduates, we have this, we would be happy to talk to you about job opportunities, give us a call. there were 40 different messages from different law firms in california on the bulletin board. so i called every one of those notices. not a single one would even give me an interview. i said why? they said we don't hire women. and that was the way it was. i got out of...
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president nixon was particularly keen to put law and order issues at the center of his agenda. in making the district the special focus of his attention, he and his allies encountered new leaders of a city now embarked on a path towards self-governance. still, a familiar pattern emerged. no-knock authority, or the ability of police to enter a premise without warning if they believed issuing one would result in the direction of evidence, was, according to d.c. police, unnecessary for the district. yet officials in the nixon administration insisted on putting it in the district's anti-crime legislation of 1970. months later the same authority appeared in nixon's overhaul of the country's drug regime, the controlled substances act of 1970, the legislative foundation of the modern drug war. as it proved somewhat controversial, proponents were quick to cite the precedent set in the district bill. congressman springer dismissed opposition to no-knock by reminding his colleagues that they had already consented to it. we had it in the district of columbia crime bill, he prompted his co
president nixon was particularly keen to put law and order issues at the center of his agenda. in making the district the special focus of his attention, he and his allies encountered new leaders of a city now embarked on a path towards self-governance. still, a familiar pattern emerged. no-knock authority, or the ability of police to enter a premise without warning if they believed issuing one would result in the direction of evidence, was, according to d.c. police, unnecessary for the...
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there's a wonderful line from the great law of the iroquois: >> in health care we have to consir the impact of our decisions for our generation and the next generation, because we don't have seven generations to wait. from the medicare trustees report: >> they have projected that medicae funding for hospital care will run out in 2024. they'll be able to pay only 90%. so should we have some limits to health care spending? what do you think? is it time? if you think about it, every system has limits. every family has a budget. every business has a budget. every government has budget. a country can't function without red lights. how did this all start? it happened because of how medicare was designed almost 50 years ago. there's no limit on how much hospitals and ore provider -- other providers can bill medicare. there's no market mechanism or regulatory structure to place limits. this was the chief design flaw of medicare when it was enacted in 1965. it's called the open-ended entitlement. what do you think? should we change it? do we need to install some red lights? just last week med
there's a wonderful line from the great law of the iroquois: >> in health care we have to consir the impact of our decisions for our generation and the next generation, because we don't have seven generations to wait. from the medicare trustees report: >> they have projected that medicae funding for hospital care will run out in 2024. they'll be able to pay only 90%. so should we have some limits to health care spending? what do you think? is it time? if you think about it, every...
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now, the law says that restaurants are supposed to make sure that tips make up the difference between that tip minimum wage of 2.13 and the regular minimum wage of 7.25. the u.s. department of labor reports an 84% violation rate with regard to employers actually making up that difference. and, in fact, in claudia's case, the ihop, mega corporate that it is and even though it is legal, said to claudia we don't want to have to be held liable for making sure that tips make up that difference, so we're going to report that you're earning $7.25 regardless of what you actually earn. which means claudia was taxed at 7.25, and like most tipped workers, received a pay stub every week that said this is not a paycheck. and it says zero. because when you earn 2.13 or 3.63 as any tipped worker will know, your wages are so low, they go entirely to taxes, and you live off of your tips. and claudia lived off of her tips which were sometimes $5 an hour, sometimes $4 an hour, sometimes zero dollars an hour when she was doing side work or the restaurant was slow. and claudia was hungry. she said i'm ash
now, the law says that restaurants are supposed to make sure that tips make up the difference between that tip minimum wage of 2.13 and the regular minimum wage of 7.25. the u.s. department of labor reports an 84% violation rate with regard to employers actually making up that difference. and, in fact, in claudia's case, the ihop, mega corporate that it is and even though it is legal, said to claudia we don't want to have to be held liable for making sure that tips make up that difference, so...
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now, the law says that restaurants are supposed to make sure that tips make up the difference between that tipped minimum wage of $2.13 in the regular minimum wage of $7.25. the u.s. department of labor report and 84% violation rates with regard to employers actually making up that difference and in fact in claudia's case the ihop mega-corporation even though it is legal said we don't want to be held liable for making sure that tips make up that difference so we are going to report that you are earning $7.25 regardless of what you actually earn. which means claudia was taxed at $7.25 and received a paste of every week is said this is not a paycheck. when you earn $2.13 or $3.63 your wages are so low they go entirely to taxes and you live off of your tips. claudia lived off of her tips which were sometimes $5 an hour, sometimes $4 an hour and sometimes $0 an hour when she was doing side work for the restaurant was slow. claudia was hungry. she said i'm ashamed to admit it but i would wait to get to the restaurant to be my pancakes because i couldn't afford to e might other women who ar
now, the law says that restaurants are supposed to make sure that tips make up the difference between that tipped minimum wage of $2.13 in the regular minimum wage of $7.25. the u.s. department of labor report and 84% violation rates with regard to employers actually making up that difference and in fact in claudia's case the ihop mega-corporation even though it is legal said we don't want to be held liable for making sure that tips make up that difference so we are going to report that you are...
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he's almost breaks the law to do it. and to live with what he knew the casualties would be glum had a better navy than the united states. our soldiers threw softballs for grenade. they carried rifles to train with that were made out of wood. he knew people were going get slaughtered. eleanor knew that took. she took it in a different way. fdr was in the white house. he had to stay there. eleanor went everywhere. people tried to kill her. they shot at her like they shot at fdr after he won the election and before he became president. she'll have the largest fbi file in history. she saw the clan go after her. they -- tried to kill her. they fire bombed trees outside of where she stood. they wrapped dynamite around the axe is of her car. they did not stop. if we understood that, imagine what we can do. did i answer your question, herb? [applause] david, who great -- wrote a great book on harry hopkins. >> yeah. he had his fight with eleanor and disappointments. iwondered whether you would be willing to talk about eleanor --
he's almost breaks the law to do it. and to live with what he knew the casualties would be glum had a better navy than the united states. our soldiers threw softballs for grenade. they carried rifles to train with that were made out of wood. he knew people were going get slaughtered. eleanor knew that took. she took it in a different way. fdr was in the white house. he had to stay there. eleanor went everywhere. people tried to kill her. they shot at her like they shot at fdr after he won the...
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that is how powerful the status quo is in making sure that no laws get passed. and when you think about it, if you went out on the street today and asked people what they thought about it, i guarantee you virtually everybody would say of course we should pass a law like that. but, you know what? the people in that committee, nobody knew that. there was no public light really hope is on that. and so -- shone on that. so those lawmakers are not going to be held accountable for those decisions or that are to the detriment of children. the only way this is going to change is if we as citizens start to hold our elected officials accountable for the kinds of laws and policies that were put in place, and we send a message to them that if you're going to vote with adult interests instead of kid interests, then we are not going to vote for you next time around. [applause] >> that means you'll have to figure out who's your school board members, who's your legislators. >> why do most teachers see the same raise every year? isn't it demotivating for the excellent teachers,
that is how powerful the status quo is in making sure that no laws get passed. and when you think about it, if you went out on the street today and asked people what they thought about it, i guarantee you virtually everybody would say of course we should pass a law like that. but, you know what? the people in that committee, nobody knew that. there was no public light really hope is on that. and so -- shone on that. so those lawmakers are not going to be held accountable for those decisions or...
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they is an official policy of not end forcing the law against small transactions. it's legal in the front door of the coffee shops, but it's still illegal to produce and to sell the marijuana to the coffee shops so it's illegal actually. what that does is inflates the price. what was passed in washington and colorado would allow for-profit companies to produce. that's very different. this is very different from this other term that gets thrown around, decriminalization. people use criminalization and decriminalization interchangeably, and that's incorrect. you know, 18-19 states criminalize marijuana, but that means lowering the penalties for possession. it's going for a misdemeanor from it being a citation. talking about decriminalization, that has nothing to do with production and distribution. that's why legalization and what happened in colorado and washington is significant. >> what is the cost the federal government to having marijuana be illegal enforcement, you know, incarceration, ect.. >> no, that's a great question. i don't know what it is for the federa
they is an official policy of not end forcing the law against small transactions. it's legal in the front door of the coffee shops, but it's still illegal to produce and to sell the marijuana to the coffee shops so it's illegal actually. what that does is inflates the price. what was passed in washington and colorado would allow for-profit companies to produce. that's very different. this is very different from this other term that gets thrown around, decriminalization. people use...
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international law allows this. international law before that would have justified that. the united states was afraid of a new humanitarian intervention role because it could be so easily abused. the u.s. said that this is a new law. it is generous. it is a one time deal. special factors never to be repeated. don't take this. after words almost every country in the world applauded this. on the road to independence. the u.n. was able to move in, a story with a good ending. the u.s. secretary general says what to make of this, what happens when there is another rwanda. i we going to save their lives and the outlaws? how do we make sense of this? so he said it was a situation that the called unlawful by legitimate. and i am pulling my hair out. as a lawyer. i suppose what it could have been his -- >> it justifies the means. >> and this side of the penalty should be, and there is no penalty. israel those in argentina and kidnaps the nazi was irresponsible for a lot of the holocaust hiding in argentina. they do that without argentina's permission. they complain that they viola
international law allows this. international law before that would have justified that. the united states was afraid of a new humanitarian intervention role because it could be so easily abused. the u.s. said that this is a new law. it is generous. it is a one time deal. special factors never to be repeated. don't take this. after words almost every country in the world applauded this. on the road to independence. the u.n. was able to move in, a story with a good ending. the u.s. secretary...
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the state local officials can't say certain laws are not. the federal government can send agents in to those and enforce those laws. it may not be as enforced much, but it's not going to stop from enforcing any federal law. i don't know how significant or important it is for people are going to move. [inaudible] i was wondering if you could touch on a lot of disinformation out there about the military style semi automatic weapon that are often discussed as subject to being banned. if you could address the functional differences or similarities to what are called legitimate sporting weapons. >> one of the other questioners at the two-part question i only got to the first part. that is what, is pretty much a made-up term. there's three different types of guns. ashamed to, automatic. when pulled the trigger lots come out. semi automatic, when will it comes out, reloads itself. then there's manually loaded, something like that. military weapons and machine guns like an m-16 has a machine gun with one pulled the trigger several bullets come out o
the state local officials can't say certain laws are not. the federal government can send agents in to those and enforce those laws. it may not be as enforced much, but it's not going to stop from enforcing any federal law. i don't know how significant or important it is for people are going to move. [inaudible] i was wondering if you could touch on a lot of disinformation out there about the military style semi automatic weapon that are often discussed as subject to being banned. if you could...
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allen who pollute produces playbook apolitical tip sheet that he describes as a distillation in-house law of the nation's business in the form of a summer camp newsletter. [laughter] the premise was that this very socially precarious individual is the town crier for the nation's capital tuesday it says much about washington as the fellow that we called nike. the great book editor became interested in this subject but let's talk about how you saw this topic. basically what this would be is a journey into the world of the playbook that seems like a rickety proposition. >> also in the psychological level the experience of writing april 2010 was essentially writing about the world that we live in and did have it in washington and that was much harder hit a story i had ever done. a fish trying to write about the water a lot of people do it was there but people resisted it because we are the fish. it was a tough story. i have known mike for a long time, extremely private private, extremely powerful and that got done and then people started to wonder people have a sense of washington end of dinn
allen who pollute produces playbook apolitical tip sheet that he describes as a distillation in-house law of the nation's business in the form of a summer camp newsletter. [laughter] the premise was that this very socially precarious individual is the town crier for the nation's capital tuesday it says much about washington as the fellow that we called nike. the great book editor became interested in this subject but let's talk about how you saw this topic. basically what this would be is a...
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school and ended up in law school in washington d.c. and i was there for two years, and i attribute being a law student for two years, i attribute that to getting me into the book business. after two years i decided i gotta, i gotta go into the book business. i don't want to be a lawyer. and the reason -- what i found myself doing is he mentioned the saw vel bookstore. i found myself wandering the bookstore more than i was wandering the law libraries. at that time there was also the original olsons in georgetown that i loved going to. and i had the good fortune of living just two blocks from kramer books and afterwords which had just opened, and they had just opened the afterwords part of it. and it was the first time i got in my mind the idea that i would want to do maybe a bookstore/cafÉ. and it took me about ten years of being in the book business before i opened our first cafÉ which is attached to our coral gables store. and so i realize now that a lot of my bookselling roots came from my experience here in washington, d.c. and th
school and ended up in law school in washington d.c. and i was there for two years, and i attribute being a law student for two years, i attribute that to getting me into the book business. after two years i decided i gotta, i gotta go into the book business. i don't want to be a lawyer. and the reason -- what i found myself doing is he mentioned the saw vel bookstore. i found myself wandering the bookstore more than i was wandering the law libraries. at that time there was also the original...
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that's kind of falling away with people using it for international law today. that's my limited understanding of it but you're right, they work together. >> had to do with a lot of other things as well, including how to treat guerrillas in guerrilla warfare, behavior of occupation troops in their relationship with civilians. so it's not just -- >> all of that part has endured. >> now, had a question for james mcpherson, i read in your book something interesting about at the start of the war, very early on, how both side didn't -- believed the war wouldn't last long. the rebelled and the yankees going bo it, even before sumpter, it would be relatively short skirmish, ask that's -- they were going to squash each other, and both things entoured starting with bull run and -- shen anyone dough -- and at the rfk of sounding tyrannical. was there evidence to suggest that perhaps the eman's make proclamation was issued by abraham lincoln as props a bold measure to really speed up the war by way of total war versus a head rush tolds total war, and this perhaps could be
that's kind of falling away with people using it for international law today. that's my limited understanding of it but you're right, they work together. >> had to do with a lot of other things as well, including how to treat guerrillas in guerrilla warfare, behavior of occupation troops in their relationship with civilians. so it's not just -- >> all of that part has endured. >> now, had a question for james mcpherson, i read in your book something interesting about at the...
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our son, daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters live in pennsylvania. you know, the biggest challenge in pennsylvania right now is whether the government's going to be the largest buyer of alcohol in the world today. the government of pennsylvania buys more alcohol than any other single entity anywhere because there's a state monopoly of abc stores. if you buy anything in pennsylvania, you do it there. the question that the republican dominated state legislature is facing is that good or bad? >> my gosh. >> that's a no-brainer, i think, to most of us, but it's a big issue up there, and the governor's got the guts to push ahead on it. in the meantime, again, so excited and end thursday yays tick about the federal system, that they have been encouraging fracking. shale goes right up from pennsylvania up into new york, and, boy, they've been end couraging it to happen, and you go into pennsylvania, and you see new development coming. after all, that's where the oil industry in the united states started, in pennsylvania, and they're encouraging it. you get
our son, daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters live in pennsylvania. you know, the biggest challenge in pennsylvania right now is whether the government's going to be the largest buyer of alcohol in the world today. the government of pennsylvania buys more alcohol than any other single entity anywhere because there's a state monopoly of abc stores. if you buy anything in pennsylvania, you do it there. the question that the republican dominated state legislature is facing is that good or bad?...
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if they went on to get master's or p hds they couldn't teach because of jim crow laws. many of them came back and tossed at dunbar. many of you heard stories about high school teachers with ph.d.s in math and language and eva dykes, the first, complicated story, first woman to earn all her credits for a ph.d. at radcliffe, graduated from dunbar and got her ph.d. from radcliffe even though in the process of trying to write a dissertation she couldn't get to certain libraries. they wouldn't let her in but she managed to complete it. that was a kind of teaching force at dunbar and also attracted people who had degrees in law. there was a medical doctor who was one of the principles. one of the principles was a lawyer but when asked why are you teaching, i like a paycheck. the reputation of this school really grew and it became a way of life to be at dunbar and there was a certain code of behavior and certain things were expected of you and one of the things i loved reading more than anything else in my research worth handbooks with their instructions on how to behave. i wi
if they went on to get master's or p hds they couldn't teach because of jim crow laws. many of them came back and tossed at dunbar. many of you heard stories about high school teachers with ph.d.s in math and language and eva dykes, the first, complicated story, first woman to earn all her credits for a ph.d. at radcliffe, graduated from dunbar and got her ph.d. from radcliffe even though in the process of trying to write a dissertation she couldn't get to certain libraries. they wouldn't let...
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i mean, the fact of the matter is it is there, it's the law, and now maybe congress can do something about it. >> i think that it is better with a few folks than 500,000 folks, and it's rather distressing. but that doesn't mean that you give up. but this is part of the conversation. serving money is a huge one, respectfully the party system is another. and the tribal nature of the party system. it is one of the reasons we have this today. there is no incentive to good behavior. we have only to go through the sequestered for the worst thing we can do is work with the other side. we're talking about ted cruz. i said this on "meet the press." poor john cornyn. the number two republican. he is on what they call cruise control. because he can't even exercise his independence because he is scared to death that a guy like mr. cruise is going to run against him. >> and then there is speaker boehner doesn't seem to really have mastered any kind of control. >> but of course, if the technology can make things move forward, as you suggested, the technology can have a role in this and you can act
i mean, the fact of the matter is it is there, it's the law, and now maybe congress can do something about it. >> i think that it is better with a few folks than 500,000 folks, and it's rather distressing. but that doesn't mean that you give up. but this is part of the conversation. serving money is a huge one, respectfully the party system is another. and the tribal nature of the party system. it is one of the reasons we have this today. there is no incentive to good behavior. we have...
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these are the crimes that the supreme court used to make the law, to shape the law, define the law on capital punishment. when we agreed on that we said, you know, that's it. and pun lister changed it to legal crime and landmark cases. the fact we agreed on it. we have to admit it was an improvement. >> guest: i don't know. [laughter] but i think it works. coming up with that theme the unifying theme was the hardest part for us. we made several false starts over the years, we must admit. >> guest: there was another book called "murder in the supreme court" that is a novel about a murder in the supreme court or in the supreme court. and we were concerned about that, well, you know, we are not going let it get in the way. it's "murder at the supreme court "and how they view punishment for it. it's appropriate. i think it was a good title and capture what the book is about. these are all lethal crimes. what the court said about them produced landmark decisions. >> host: and, you know, i have to say i think it looks neat about the title and the way the book is done with the qr code and th
these are the crimes that the supreme court used to make the law, to shape the law, define the law on capital punishment. when we agreed on that we said, you know, that's it. and pun lister changed it to legal crime and landmark cases. the fact we agreed on it. we have to admit it was an improvement. >> guest: i don't know. [laughter] but i think it works. coming up with that theme the unifying theme was the hardest part for us. we made several false starts over the years, we must admit....
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our son, daughter-in-law and two granddaughters live in pennsylvania. you know the biggest challenge in pennsylvania right now is whether the government is keen to be the largest by year of alcohol in the world today. the government of alcohol by is more than any entity because they have a state monopoly of abc stores. they will buy anything in pennsylvania so the republican dominated state legislature expense facing that. it's a no-brainer for most of us that the government has the head to keep pushing on it. in the meantime, it gets you so enthusiastic and excited about the federal system. the legislature in harrisburg have been encouraging fracking. shalem goes from pennsylvania up and they've been encouraging it to happen. if you go into pennsylvania and received -- see the new development coming and think that is where the oil industry in the united states really started and pennsylvanians. they are encouraging it. you get to the state line of new york, we have andrew cuomo -- i blame this on jim demint he says it's like the difference between nort
our son, daughter-in-law and two granddaughters live in pennsylvania. you know the biggest challenge in pennsylvania right now is whether the government is keen to be the largest by year of alcohol in the world today. the government of alcohol by is more than any entity because they have a state monopoly of abc stores. they will buy anything in pennsylvania so the republican dominated state legislature expense facing that. it's a no-brainer for most of us that the government has the head to...
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that kind of fall so if people use it for international law today. that's my own limited understanding that you write those things can be together. >> it had to do with a lot of other things including how to treat guerrillas in guerrilla warfare. the behavior of occupation troops and their relationship with civilians. so it's not just slavery. >> all of that part has endured. >> i had a question for james mcpherson. i read in battle cry for freedom something atchison about the start of the war early on how both sides really believe the war would last very long. the rebels and the yankees going into that, even before sumter, everything is broke out would be a relatively short skirmish and they're going to squash each other quickly. if things endured a starting with bull run into shenandoah and especially with antietam as the war dragged on, at the risk of sounding too ideological icons, is there evidence to suggest that perhaps the emancipation proclamation was issued by abraham lincoln as perhaps a bold measure to really speed up the war by way of to
that kind of fall so if people use it for international law today. that's my own limited understanding that you write those things can be together. >> it had to do with a lot of other things including how to treat guerrillas in guerrilla warfare. the behavior of occupation troops and their relationship with civilians. so it's not just slavery. >> all of that part has endured. >> i had a question for james mcpherson. i read in battle cry for freedom something atchison about the...
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and douglas say i got this city took care of it and was on the board 1871395v and given the honorary law degree from the university. so there is a strict keying image but now of the historic site coming greeks -- greek classics with contemporary books, biography, and he has the reports but all this information there is one that no one's style that he read or a shot drug but he did read a little bit of fiction. this is frederick douglass memorial hall taken for me to 42. with university houses the rotc program in the political science department. highberger now we have to change course of frederick douglass when he writes is the autobiography he put his life on the line. when he is in england his freedom is negotiated and purchased for him so he returns to america a free man. douglas was friends with john browne and he said he will die for the slave and i will live for him in douglas consoles or vices i don't think your plan will work because he once douglas to come along so when he fails he is implicated so he house to get out of town he was to fleets of what industry to canada to go bac
and douglas say i got this city took care of it and was on the board 1871395v and given the honorary law degree from the university. so there is a strict keying image but now of the historic site coming greeks -- greek classics with contemporary books, biography, and he has the reports but all this information there is one that no one's style that he read or a shot drug but he did read a little bit of fiction. this is frederick douglass memorial hall taken for me to 42. with university houses...
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they didn't care what the law said. >> i have to say -- are we going to take questions from the audience, is that the next -- i have one more thing that i wanted to ask david here. what was it? you know, i wrote all this stuff down. you know, oh, you know what it was, i was reading this book by john steinbeck the other day, "indune yous battle," have my of you read it? classic strike novel from the 930s. i think it might have been one of the things that ayn rand used to write atlas shrugged. but in it the strikers, they're migrant farm workers, and they do camp, okay? they set up an encampment, and they run into the same problems you did. obviously, sanitation is -- >> we had sanitation pretty well handled. >> with right. as a pretext. and then, of course, there's the violence and, ultimately, everything falls apart. but when you're talking about a sort of traditional strike like that, there's always a sense that if they last long enough, they will win something tangible. and i always get the feeling with occupy that there was nothing like that on the horizon, that it was just like we're
they didn't care what the law said. >> i have to say -- are we going to take questions from the audience, is that the next -- i have one more thing that i wanted to ask david here. what was it? you know, i wrote all this stuff down. you know, oh, you know what it was, i was reading this book by john steinbeck the other day, "indune yous battle," have my of you read it? classic strike novel from the 930s. i think it might have been one of the things that ayn rand used to write...
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all of us have broken the law at some point in our lives. if you're an adult, you've broken the law at some point in your life. now, i find that some people say oh, yeah, i'm a sinner, i've made mistakes but don't call me a criminal. don't call me a criminal. i say, okay, maybe you never drink underage. maybe you never experiment with drugs. but the worst thing you've done in your entire life is be 10 miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you put yourself and others at more risk of harm and someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of their living room. but there are people in the united states serving life sentences for first time drug offenses. life sentences. the u.s. supreme court upheld life sentences for first time drug offenders against an eighth amendment challenge that such sensors were cruel and unusual in violation of eighth amendment. the u.s. supreme court said no, no. it's not cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a young man to life imprisonment for a first time drug offense. even though virtually no other country in th
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of labor they will do it and if you give consumers the incentive they will do it and therefore this law harms the economy because there are more wage earners those in turn with so forth so the idea is a particular segment of the economy but that will ultimately in the long run be good as a whole and even in most cases the goal is not to drive the business out into bankruptcy but not to get the business to change its practicead so as they often try to do is that there is the extreme example where there is personal animus they want to harm a business or corporation that by and large that if it changes their view it is a matter of ethics and with the of the side of the boycott is to raise consciousness of an issue and many other boycotts the goal is to have the economic impasse but also to let americans know they have a connection to a moral issue and an example could be farm workers beginning in the late '60s through the '70s for many decades thereafter and in 1971 the estimated 70 million americans are acting in solidarity with the boycott. i think the idea was not so much to harm those
of labor they will do it and if you give consumers the incentive they will do it and therefore this law harms the economy because there are more wage earners those in turn with so forth so the idea is a particular segment of the economy but that will ultimately in the long run be good as a whole and even in most cases the goal is not to drive the business out into bankruptcy but not to get the business to change its practicead so as they often try to do is that there is the extreme example...
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guy who chaired the committee, under secretary norman went in and froze the the 1981 bill that became law, that the reagan tax cut we are talking about earlier so it was a practical handle. the neat thing that you recount again five years later it didn't make a difference. four or five years later by 1984 there were 40 other organizations doing knockoffs of what the mandate for leadership had been. >> when i interviewed the president of other think tanks in washington d.c. brookings and c s i s and kato, i said what difference has the heritage approach to research made? all the difference in the world. the brookings president said we now do what heritage first started so heritage really, and i say that in the book, change the think tank culture of washington d.c.. >> one of the neatest things that i can say among all of you, 25, 30 years ago when phil and i were just getting our feet wet at heritage there weren't 600 people in the united states who knew what a think tank was. 600,000 people have voluntarily supported us. that is incredible. incredible impact. >> glad you mentioned that be
guy who chaired the committee, under secretary norman went in and froze the the 1981 bill that became law, that the reagan tax cut we are talking about earlier so it was a practical handle. the neat thing that you recount again five years later it didn't make a difference. four or five years later by 1984 there were 40 other organizations doing knockoffs of what the mandate for leadership had been. >> when i interviewed the president of other think tanks in washington d.c. brookings and c...
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well -- well, in fact, without the law it would be be 8.6%. from then on basically the government went to the private sector and borrowed money at market conditions, instead of conditions of the central bank. so, that is what was part of the problem. and i -- that's my favorite picture coming from the economists of -- of europe. and this is, again, words from the economist -- been talk can about at it few times so definitely living in an interesting period. but it could also mean this. okay? now, europe. everything depends on germany. when germany stops supporting the euro, it is done a half an hour later. and there's going to be three possibilities. the slipping up -- i don't think we'll go back to 37 currencies. and the question will be about france. and the final thing is a magic wand. this is not coming from europe. this is actually coming, not from -- from the imf. i would describe that document as the pope inaugurating a buddhist temple. it is not a buddhist temple. this is coming from the people who are supposed to -- and they're really
well -- well, in fact, without the law it would be be 8.6%. from then on basically the government went to the private sector and borrowed money at market conditions, instead of conditions of the central bank. so, that is what was part of the problem. and i -- that's my favorite picture coming from the economists of -- of europe. and this is, again, words from the economist -- been talk can about at it few times so definitely living in an interesting period. but it could also mean this. okay?...
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technology enables runners and other bystanders with mobile phones to work or law-enforcement along with credible journalist telling the story, finding the suspects. streak cameras and tips lead to follow up interviews to flush out the story is giving us a better understanding of what happened. again, a credibility working with technology. even more recently the heroic rescue of three kidnapped girls held for years as tortured prisoners it in cleveland is a great example of the determined nature of journalist. i was struck by the frantic 91 call made by one of the victims. help me. i am amanda berra i said -- amanda berry i have been kidnapped in missing 10 years and i am now than i am free now. i has been on the news for 10 years. she knew that because responsible journalists kept her story alive for 10 years and amanda was watching. we non-ec an increase of more online outlets offering possibilities for content that really we are counted with more news that requires solid journalistic investigation who doesn't want to know more about the i.r.a. scandal? and we do need more facts about
technology enables runners and other bystanders with mobile phones to work or law-enforcement along with credible journalist telling the story, finding the suspects. streak cameras and tips lead to follow up interviews to flush out the story is giving us a better understanding of what happened. again, a credibility working with technology. even more recently the heroic rescue of three kidnapped girls held for years as tortured prisoners it in cleveland is a great example of the determined...
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which was against the law in some states. he never abandoned black folks was a sellout or the other various -- he knew he was a real-life uncle tom. he -- first time i said, you know. he always identified as a black man and person. always championing the cause of black folks, women. it was purposeful he kept the hair the way he did. there's two letter of introduction one from william lloyd garrison and the other from wendell phillips. he took douglass under the wing and gave him life advice. he said, well, you know, young frederick. if you want to tell history, you know, history will only be told the right way when lion's write history. it's believed to be an african proverb. he took to heart. when he walked around the streets of washington, d.c., he kept that lion image. that flowing main. i don't have -- you can see it pretty good him with the main. good. douglass statute yesterday of unveiled at emancipation hall. douglass really didn't -- he was a "washingtonian." to his heart to his core. this is a newspaper clipping fro
which was against the law in some states. he never abandoned black folks was a sellout or the other various -- he knew he was a real-life uncle tom. he -- first time i said, you know. he always identified as a black man and person. always championing the cause of black folks, women. it was purposeful he kept the hair the way he did. there's two letter of introduction one from william lloyd garrison and the other from wendell phillips. he took douglass under the wing and gave him life advice. he...
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and i was used to very much a run and down here we didn't have the constitution, we didn't have by laws, we didn't have anything. we just had meetings. that was a shock to me. that we didn't have any of that. there was never a tribal attorney before vyola ortner got involved with the tribe. first year she was on the tribal council she paid for an attorney out of her own funds. knowing the necessity of having legal counsel to go through the thickest of all of the regulations that the government had developed around indian land and she was determined to maximize this asset. it was the land and natural resources. this was before gaining came in so vyola ortner do if there was any chance of building a better future for their fried it was to maximize the land. >> section 14 became a very bad slum. because we didn't have these things -- leasing. you could come and be on my land, you can live on my land so then it became very congested and it was not a good sight. >> if you only lease a land for a parcel for five years for a residence for ten years for agricultural purposes you get clientele t
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but we cannot as a country that is governed by the rule of law accept people who violate the law. i mean, we're just not that type of country. this is not something that's morally or legally acceptable. and, yes, i mean, on paper, of course, that's an extremely powerful argument. who can argue with that? however, the problem is when the law is simply not realistic, when the law does not take reality into account, then you create a condition for a systematic violation of the law on a grand scale. and when that happens, usually something is wrong with law. not necessarily with the nature of the people who are violating that law. it's simply the way it works. it works with all sorts of other conducts, social conducts that stem from, of course, the criminalization of things that should not be held as being criminal by the law. so the same thing happens with immigrants which is why when people say, well, there's a disproportionate number of criminals who are immigrants, of course, if you criminalize immigrants and you just make the condition of being an immigrant a criminal one, then c
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i traveled to law school to account the bar association groups. i travel to other kinds of groups as well, because i want to reach out and teach people about the law and about how it makes me so passionate about what i do. if in one meeting with the people i can get them to understand our legal system a little bit better, i hope that they will become better citizens. that they will be more active citizens, and working in the team unity and improving it for everyone. so we're busy on lots of different things, not just him being in the courtroom. that our that lawyers have argued cases before us, it's a microcosm of the work that we put into the case. >> the most popular question submitted was how do the justices get along? [laughter] now, i know that relations among you all are deeply collegial, so i'm wondering, what are the conference rituals and the ways you all build relationships? >> it starts with respect. if you come into this process, appreciating that every single justice on the court as a passion and they love for the constitution and our
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law. you can't take it to criminal court, but to the table to negotiate with those who tell you we're the only people, we, the jewish people, with rights in this land. these cold, hard realities of how u.s. policy grievancely harms palestinians are screened from the u.s. public. we bombarded, especially on television, instead, with dishonest rhetoric what is described as progress in a so-called peace process which extensively consistented of negotiations between near equals under the impartial gays of an honest american broker, all supposedly intended to create an independent palestinian state. i'm arguing that this is not what is actually happening. this is not what has happened for 35 years. what has happened is the continuation and the intensification and the reenforcement of the dispersal of the organization and colonization of the pal stippian people and their homeland. the united states, in fact, has never really operated as an honest broker between the palestinians and israel. i nev
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the examples of the federal laws and in the early 20th century i agree with you. the federal government was a friend of the progress of some. i'm not sure that is true today. the national government is blocking [inaudible] cities i didn't talk about that one of the proposals. [inaudible] which can go to hospitals and use emergency rooms and cities are trying to do things that nowadays the national states no longer deutsch and by the way the same is true in other in the world. the book does try to [inaudible] >> thank you. is it on? the city tries to deal with issues that once upon a time the civil rights universal rights was the local government got in the way and escorted them to state and local universities in the south because the mayor's and places like little rock were a big part of the problem. but nowadays i think that has changed in fundamental ways and i no longer see the central government as a friend of progress and friend of justice and the opponent of big money i see the cities as better able to do that and indeed it seems to me it thinks the big gove
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federal law will be state lac come. constiodtional all the federal law. trees will be federal law. there is a h sora rifi in creatad.e constiodtion. and so when there is a particular a fyou be found in the constitution the judges have the authority to artiluslate. so do mommbejudge of cony clue. when there is another rule of law to be found in the constiodtion in the plant -- i litical branches are supposed to have the file sent. one of the great claicues in i wosden clurisprudencen the people who really believe in the ratiolitle, that the constitution shns when it is al the people who think, well, now that we he a the structure of federalism versus the 1791 version ever arose in your conversation. >> welcome to the topic came of often. 1789 to 1791. will we actually have, that was the day of the last amendment which was the final ratification in 1992 were one of the 12 amendments of madison in the house proposed in 1790. the major changes, huge changes in later parts, the adoption of the income tax, it fundamentally change the role of the federal government's visa be the states. t
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you compare it to what the big law firm makes me be 1,654,145,000. it is a huge disparity and the work is not necessarily tell you by the society where people will say how can you sleep at night defending those people? what was your sense of the onality that ad become public defenders? >> guest: well, a lot of it that i was writing about was committed activists, really committed to seeing justice done and tested and their clients working huge hours but it took a toll on all of the ones i wrote about in the book by the end of the time were not doing it anym coup which i ws only reporting the book for a year-and-a-half so that became one of the themes in my book is like the system is hemorrhaging fetal respse.said it is a bio me that is not insignificant i think. it's like they go out to a party and the friends are like how can you defend those guilty people or that murder? >> host: they got themselves arrested as i think you quoted someone saying. the public defender said the personality trait that some of them seem to have is this sort of antiauthori
you compare it to what the big law firm makes me be 1,654,145,000. it is a huge disparity and the work is not necessarily tell you by the society where people will say how can you sleep at night defending those people? what was your sense of the onality that ad become public defenders? >> guest: well, a lot of it that i was writing about was committed activists, really committed to seeing justice done and tested and their clients working huge hours but it took a toll on all of the ones i...
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immigration laws were relaxed and did fantastically well in a very short period of time. and so, you had a hold trajectory of the community, it's highs and its lows. >> the other thing i just wanted to ask you and i have been meaning to ask you, the title. i just love the title. how did you hone in on that particular title? >> well if i can start by saying we have many titles before this title. the first title which was my favorite was sons of the morning and came from a hymn that i loved when i was in boarding school because it captured this idea of the indians, the indian-american league that got caught up in this case of the press -- not best and the brightest of india. i guess not everyone knew the hymn at the boarding school so that was quickly cast aside. and then we toyed with two kings, because raj and that wade was the king of wealth, you know and roger was a different sort of king, a king of thought. he was a strategist from mckenzie. he had a certain ability about him and i don't want to give away any trade secrets but i think hachette was selling another book
immigration laws were relaxed and did fantastically well in a very short period of time. and so, you had a hold trajectory of the community, it's highs and its lows. >> the other thing i just wanted to ask you and i have been meaning to ask you, the title. i just love the title. how did you hone in on that particular title? >> well if i can start by saying we have many titles before this title. the first title which was my favorite was sons of the morning and came from a hymn that i...
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law office and was really a terrible lawyer. in his year or two down there he attained no clients. he loved spending the afternoons reading. he read a lot of history. he created new discipline in this country, political science. he read a lot about politics, government, economics, history, and how they were melded into this new thing called political science. and after wilson realized he was not making a living as an attorney in atlanta he decided he was going to go to graduate school. one very good thing came out of his atlanta years and that was he had one big piece of business as a lawyer, and that was something that his family had thrown to him. there was some piece of property that needed some contracts done, legal work. so he went to georgia where he was tying up loose ends and where he, a presbyterian ministers son met a woman named ellen lou erickson who was a presbyterian ministers daughter. the two of them fell in love and had a real old-fashioned 19th century court should. a little more extensive than most because wil
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but from the empire state of new york and nouvelle law as well as he did. several soldiers were in the cars and another passenger scheme in the related of the circumstances that said you have heard that old woman talk to the conductor. sojourner went further than she needed to go for it was a rare privilege that she was determined to make the most of it. she left the car feeling very happy and said less daughter i have. the truth had been walking with a white friend when they decided to a street car together. astana a conductor put the hand on her to force her off the streetcar and the situation exploded. in the book of life, she describes what happened. as she signaled the car i stepped to one side to continue my block and when it stopped i ran and jumped on board. the conductor pushed me back saying get out of the way and let this lady come in im of lady, too we went with no further opposition until we were obliged to change cars. a man coming out now as we were going into the next car asked the conductor if niggers were allowed to ride. the conductor gra
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he was familiar with that side of the law. march 1877. rutherford b hays and a points frederick douglass for the district of columbia and the president lincoln was marshalled and i am not a lincoln scholar but there are folks from the d.c. group. and rings a bell. it was a prominent information at the time. and the dc bar association, and douglass there, the stance was that we don't doubt. mr. douglass's abilities or his intelligence we are not sure if he will be able to administer law properly. that is maybe because he had been a fugitive. and none the less. is he confirmed by the executive session. and he so. it is really a first big government appointment in the grant administration for a short period of time on the city council of dc on the territory. and served a short period of time. it was interesting to make washington, d.c. unique. and he tendered his resignation. in may of 1871. he was at that time. run ago newspaper. and he joined the board of howard university. a lot of calls for him to lecture all over the country. he did wha
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if they don't like the law, they will overturn the law. the they don't like what happened when they tried to overturn the law, they will go to the, to the supreme courts. if they don't like the action of the supreme courts, they will appeal the supreme court to the u.n. they say, well, that's what we do in this a democratic process. that's what the people of the land do in a democratic process. that's not what is done from boston and san francisco is we pull the strings on what is and is not going to be done with the legitimacy of israeli law, a law, by the way, that goes back to the beginning of the judeo-christian ethic. i hope that answers your question. is there another question here? do you have a question? with that, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for having me. i hope to come back to a hearing room soon. thank you. [applause] >> is there a than fiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at and they're not my keywords. arbaugh's words. i asked a couple of questions. when you look at the
if they don't like the law, they will overturn the law. the they don't like what happened when they tried to overturn the law, they will go to the, to the supreme courts. if they don't like the action of the supreme courts, they will appeal the supreme court to the u.n. they say, well, that's what we do in this a democratic process. that's what the people of the land do in a democratic process. that's not what is done from boston and san francisco is we pull the strings on what is and is not...
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and he managed to stay one step ahead of the law. largely because it very high social connections with people who have maintained good relations with the revolution a generation but also because he was so useful. he was particularly useful as a publicist and as an economist. you start writing papers for madison and adams, jefferson. he was just too useful to throw in jail as a possible, as they loyalist sympathizer and the lead go. franklin endorsing heavily and cox was interested because he was the first of this circle to see the connection between application and the development of the american industry. for hamilton in particular in, this is really the beginning of an american machine. so i would argue that and what i try to live at the very beginning by talking about it, mentioning it in some of us other example is that they are the direct outgrowth, the direct beneficiaries of the movement for useful knowledge which was about getting things done. said edison invented the lightbulb, the tungsten light bulb? he tried every maturit
and he managed to stay one step ahead of the law. largely because it very high social connections with people who have maintained good relations with the revolution a generation but also because he was so useful. he was particularly useful as a publicist and as an economist. you start writing papers for madison and adams, jefferson. he was just too useful to throw in jail as a possible, as they loyalist sympathizer and the lead go. franklin endorsing heavily and cox was interested because he...
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court used to make the law, to shape the law, to define the law of capital punishment. when we agreed on that we said that's it. then the publisher changed it to legal crimes, lethal crimes and landmark cases. but the fact that we agreed on -- >> guest: which we have to agree was an improvement. [laughter] >> guest: i don't know. i think it works. >> guest: coming up with that team, the unifying theme was the hardest part. we made several false starts over the years. >> guest: the concern was there was another book called murder in the supreme court. that is a novel about a murder at the supreme court. we were concerned about that. you know, we weren't going to let that get in our way. this is "murder at the supreme court" at is how the supreme court used murder in the punishment that is appropriate for it. but i think it is a good time and it does capture what the book is all about. these are all legal crimes and what the court said about him, or just landmark decisions. >> host: i think what's neat about the time and the way the book is done, the barcode and where the
court used to make the law, to shape the law, to define the law of capital punishment. when we agreed on that we said that's it. then the publisher changed it to legal crimes, lethal crimes and landmark cases. but the fact that we agreed on -- >> guest: which we have to agree was an improvement. [laughter] >> guest: i don't know. i think it works. >> guest: coming up with that team, the unifying theme was the hardest part. we made several false starts over the years. >>...